Trump

[Jun]

How are the Trump tax rises being received in the US?

[Gaybutton]

How are the Trump tax rises being received in the US?

If you mean the tariffs, not much talk other than news sites. It's too soon to know how they will affect people's wallets and for how long, especially since Trump keeps changing his mind every two minutes.

For me personally, the only way it would mean anything is how it will affect the exchange rates.

[Jun]

For me personally, the only way it would mean anything is how it will affect the exchange rates.

Well tariffs are a tax on consumer goods that will increase prices for consumers.

So if this persists, you get more inflation.
If the fed increase interest rates as a consequence, the dollar should do OK.
If, at that stage, some idiot stops the fed increasing interest rates, the dollar would be very weak.

Now does the US government have anyone dumb enough to interfere with the independence of the fed?

[AdamKY]

Now does the US government have anyone dumb enough to interfere with the independence of the fed?

Yes, tRump.

[Gaybutton]

'Nazis got better treatment,' appeals court judge says of deportees in Alien Enemies Act case

U.S. Circuit Judge Patricia Millett repeatedly pressed the Trump administration about the lack of due process protections for alleged members of a Venezuelan gang.

March 25, 2025

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump- ... rcna197804

I actually find myself with Trump on this one. Whether they are gang members or not, if they are undocumented and entered the USA illegally, then out they go. If they don't want to be treated this way, then don't enter the USA illegally and then cry about it if caught.

I truly hope nobody innocent, who entered the USA legally and is legally documented doesn't get tangled up in this. It probably does happen rarely, but I don't know what can be done about it and that would be terrible thing with no recourse available at all, but in my opinion illegal alien criminals caught in the USA are getting even better than they deserve and getting them out has to be done. With the numbers ICE is going after. I don't see any other practical way of doing it.

[Jun]

I actually find myself with Trump on this one. Whether they are gang members or not, if they are undocumented and entered the USA illegally, then out they go. If they don't want to be treated this way, then don't enter the USA illegally and then cry about it if caught.

I agree too.
Also, if the UK would roughly deport all our illegal immigrants back to the middle east, where they belong, then the problem would stop.

[Gaybutton]

One of the problems in the USA has been the number of illegal immigrants who were actually court ordered to leave the USA, but were released from custody and then didn't leave. They just stayed on illegally, hoping not to get caught yet again. A few years ago we had a debate right here on this board when a pizza delivery man, who had been court ordered to leave the USA, but didn't, got caught when he was delivering a pizza. Some were very supportive of him. I was not among them. I thought he had absolutely no business, let alone no right, to still be in the USA and until caught was free to do anything he wanted and go anywhere he wanted.

That did not, and still does not, sit well with me. He was in the USA illegally in the first place and was defying court orders to leave. While he was not committing any crimes, aren't both illegal entry and defying court orders crimes?

While some were very sympathetic to him, I was not. Tell me what any other country - and I mean any other country - would do if they catch someone in the country illegally and had been court ordered to leave, but stayed anyway. I don't know why the USA should be any different or why someone court ordered to leave was even released.

[Jun]

"Nothing is more sensitive in Iran than the prospect of direct negotiations with the United States, particularly when the president in question is called Donald Trump.

This is the same Donald Trump who in 2018 wrecked the first nuclear deal by imposing “maximum pressure” on Iran even though the regime had, contrary to habit, been keeping the agreement. Then Mr Trump authorised the killing of Qassem Soleimani, a brutal Iranian general who the Ayatollahs were busily promoting as a national hero.

So you can be sure that Iran’s leaders did not want Mr Trump to tell the world that direct talks will begin on Saturday, let alone to make that revelation alongside their arch enemy, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister."

This is a subscription newspaper, so I included a reasonable extract above.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/ ... al-crisis/

[Dodger]

Here's a link to Trumps new travel ban proposal which is currently under consideration. It involves 43 countries who would (if passed into law) be either fully or partially banned from entering the U.S.

I'm in favor of the deportation actions being taken now - and also like this new proposal on its surface - but I lack confidence in anything that Trump, or the plastic people he surrounds himself with, touches.

https://www.jeelani-law.com/which-43-co ... ravel-ban/

[Gaybutton]

I'm in favor of the deportation actions being taken now

Me too, but along with it I hope it won't ruin things for those already in the USA legally, for legitimate purposes, and are neither causing nor involved with any problems.

I believe the man who was mistakenly deported should be returned quickly. He did nothing wrong. I don't understand the delay about it.

I also believe the guy who was in the USA on a student visa and led a pro Hamas rally on campus and allegedly hid hid affiliation with similar groups on his visa application should be deported. I realize his wife is about to have a baby, but the fault is his own. If he had simply stayed out of rally and acted responsibly for his family, he would have had no problem. In my opinion he chose this for himself and, sad as it might be for his family, that is not enough to relieve him of the consequences.